Kombu Salad for Weight Loss

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Kombu is a sea vegetable commonly known as seaweed. If you are tired of the regular flavors, try adding kombu to your dish to boost the flavor. It gives meals a savory umami flavor along with providing plenty of health benefits. Kombu is high in iodine which is essential for thyroid function. It is also high in other nutrients such as iron, calcium, and trace minerals. Vitamins A and C are also found in kombu.

Including seaweed in the diet provides an abundance of health benefits. Fucoidan is a component of Kombu that has powerful enzymes found in most algae. Wakame and Kombu have one of the highest concentrations of fucoidan that causes acidic cells (cancer cells) in the body to kill themselves. In multicellular organisms, the body heals itself by regulating the cells that do not serve any purpose or are not needed or a cell that becomes a threat to another organism. This destruction process within the body is regulated tightly by the cell suicide process known as “Programmed cell death” or Apoptosis. Fucoidan increases these effects on acidic cells and prevents the body from being harmed by the cancer cells.

You can use Kombu Salad for Weight loss, which is naturally high in antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, omega 3, 6 fats essential for brain function, and numerous other health benefits. It’s usually offered fresh or dried, although it can also be powdered. Kombu is traditionally used for soup stocks, salads, and even fertilizer and hair coloring.

Kombu salad is a nutrient-dense, low-calorie meal. Kombu possesses a miraculous characteristic that functions as a natural bean tenderizer. This property aids in the breakdown of complex sugars in gas-producing beans. As a result, Kombu can assist you in avoiding flatulence caused by beans. The algaes also have fish flavor due high value omega oils presence in them. Fish taste and smells like algaes,  as most vegetarian believe its the reverse, algaes taste like fish.

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Kombu Salad

lunch – Mediterranean

By Dadaji – Serves: 4

Prep Time: 20 mins Total Time: 30 mins

What’s better than using the leftover kombu to make a healthy Kombu salad. Drizzle some soy sauce on it if you want to experiment with it.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup dried kombu algae
• 2 cups of water to soak
• 1 apple, finely grated
• 1 carrot, grated
• A handful of rocket salad leaves.
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds to garnish
• For the dressing:
• 1-2 tbsp
• 1 tbsp of sesame oil
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp of honey

Instructions

1

Soak the kombu in water for 20 minutes.

2

Drain the water from the kombu and add the kombu along with all the other ingredients in a bowl.

3

Mix the ingredients of the sauce in a separate bowl or cup.

4

Drizzle the sauce onto the salad and serve.

Notes

Always use fresh carrot, apple and rocket salad to get most benefits from all ingredients.